Mojito

Well, we're in Cuba, know the Mojito ?? 

let's see it!



Ingredients:


½ cup rum
½ cup of mineral water
1 cup crushed ice
1 sprig of mint
1 tablespoon lemon juice
sugar


Instructions:


Mix lemon juice, rum, sugar, crushed ice and mint.
Using a spoon mix well until sugar dissolves.
Add club soda.
Serve in small glasses and garnish with mint.

This cocktail in particular has several stories about its origin ...

One of these is the fact that the Mojito goes back to the sixteenth century, when pirates roamed freely through the Caribbean seas, and at this time this cocktail is known by the name "The Drake" after the English pirate Francis Drake.

Another story was invented during the U.S. Prohibition, when all those Americans who wanted to consume alcohol in a legal way, they had to go to Cuba. In the United States were used to make cocktails like the Mojito but prepared with bourbon or American whiskey, but in Cuba there was no bourbon, so they replaced it with white rum.

Others say that its true origin dates back to 1910 when a descendant of Spanish(name unknown) created the cocktail in a club of aristocrats located in La Concha beach west of Havana. 

Some also think that the Mojito was invented at a restaurant in Havana called LaBodeguita del Medio, but this restaurant was popularized by Ernest Hemingway as this came every evening at this restaurant to take a couple of Mojitos because it wasone of his favorite cocktails . In fact, there is a slogan that says, "Hemingway takes its daiquiri at the Floridita, and mojito in the Bodeguita ."

As you can see there are several different stories, each with its peculiar charm. I describe to you the some of the popular stories that make you prefer and if you haveothers ask me to write! ... KISS;)